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Columbia Business School Tells Its Students They Smell

Rob Quinn — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 08:13:00 CDT

Columbia Business School has emailed first-year students to let them know that being stinky and pushy isn't going to help them find jobs in finance. A "friendly reminder" sent to students and obtained by Dealbreaker informs them that company recruiters have complained and urges them to follow personal hygiene basics,...

Economy Sparks Record Military Recruitment

Rob Quinn — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:41:53 CDT

The recession has helped boost the US military to its best recruitment year since the post-Vietnam switch to an all-volunteer force. Recruiters hit or exceeded all their targets for the first time since 1973, surprising even Pentagon officials. In addition to rising unemployment, recruiting was helped by bonuses, a recruiting...

Army Recruiters' Video Arcade Draws Fire

Nick McMaster — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:26:56 CDT

The Army Experience Center in Philadelphia—a sort of video arcade/recruiting center—has numerous detractors, and those opponents have an influential ally. “This is just a new version of an old attempt” at recruiting, Pulitzer Prize winner and former New York Times war correspondent Chris Hedges tells dscriber. The simulations...

No Child Left Unrecruited

Harry Kimball — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:32:56 CDT

The military is using a host of behind-the-scenes methods—including the No Child Left Behind Act—to gather information on high school students for recruitment, writes David Goodman in Mother Jones . A little-known provision in NCLB, for instance, requires schools that get funding to supply recruiters with info on all...

'09 Grads Picky Despite Grim Jobs Market

Rob Quinn — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 06:28:38 CDT

Many of this year's college grads are confounding career advisers by rejecting suggestions that they can't afford to be choosy about what job to take in a recession, the New York Times reports. The grads say they don't want to be forced into less-than-ideal jobs and career paths by economic...

Economic Muck Gives GOP Hope for New Blood in 2010

Matt Cantor — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:18:34 CDT

As bad economic reports keep coming, Republicans are seeing candidate recruitment soar, the Hill reports. The party has had “probably its first good couple weeks in four years,” says an analyst, fueled in large part by rising unemployment and sinking stocks. Meanwhile, Democrats have lost top Senate candidate recruits and...

Case of Autistic Marine Sheds Light on Recruitment Ethics

Matt Cantor — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:58:41 CDT

Operating in a war-weary America, military recruiters face a difficult task—and some are skirting ethics to fill their quotas, the Los Angeles Times reports. While substantiated cases against recruiters are relatively few—593 claims were verified in fiscal 2007, which saw 319,229 enlistees—the case of an autistic...

Defense Giants Stalk Cyberwar Contracts

Harry Kimball — Sat, 30 May 2009 15:05:00 CDT

Major defense contractors are already staffed with "hacker soldiers" who can help them earn billions of dollars in Washington's new cyberwar, the New York Times reports. Cranking rock tunes and piling up pop cans, engineers hack away at companies like Raytheon, working for the Pentagon or protecting internal documents. Now,...

CIA Wants You, I-Banker

Harry Kimball — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:50:12 CDT

The CIA is looking for a few good bankers to track down millionaire bad guys and stymie financial terrorism, the New York Post reports. Ads on Bloomberg Radio ask money whizzes to use their “intelligence for the work of a nation.” The $160,000 salary will probably be a pay...